Review: Thor

As I mentioned at the end of my review for X-Men: First Class, that watching Thor on Blu-Ray would be really my first time watching it. I was right. I saw this opening weekend in 3D and aside from the feeling I didn't get a choice at the theatre to see it in 2D I am glad I saw it now. The 3D in the film I felt didn't enhance the film it actually took away from it. I had to focus on the people coming out from the screen and then miss a lot of the great visuals in the film that lay far back. 

I rarely if ever read comics as a kid and yet I am completely loving these comic book films. I didn't know anything about the mythos of Thor and every time his home of Asgard was mentioned, I kept thinking of the grey aliens from Stargate and their own story that I kept waiting for the Richard Dean Anderson to show up with his Thor. Of course unlike X-Men, Thor is one of the other heroes to be featured in the upcoming Avengers in 2012. The feature on the Blu-Ray about the Avengers didn't really have me begging for more as opposed to why have that feature on the disc. It really didn't give me more information or teased me it mocked the viewers. We got more of a tease and then some at the end of Captain America. Which to be honest  that was the only good thing about that film.  I only watched one other special feature so far and that was from Asgard to Earth and the work the crews did to make the visuals was stunning. Which supports my case that 3D ruined it the first time around.

I liked the balance of humor in the film and sometimes it was a bit cliched like Thor getting hit by Natalie Portman for the second time while driving or backing up for that matter. Also, how Stan Lee was featured for that brief few seconds trying to to pull Thor's hammer from the ground with his pickup truck was a bit thrill. There was one moment in the film that I felt left me creeped out and it wasn't meant to be that way, but it just didn't come across well and that was close to the end with Thor and his mother. When Thor walked past his mother she watched as he went away and she had a look in eyes and face that made me think she had more than just motherly feelings for her son. I love Rene Russo and I saw the interview she did promoting the film on Jay Leno and how she as a person admired how handsome Chris Hemsworth is and had to remember she was playing his mother. Apparently, she forgot that in that scene.

I still hold X-Men: First Class as the shining light and top of the ladder for the best comic book movie from this summer and Thor would come in second. I do recommend this for anyone wanting a good action movie mixed with the right amount of humor. Like I said I didn't know anything about Thor and enjoyed it. Another plus for Thor in my book is that the Blu-Ray played without issue.